Eggs Unlimited is a family-owned company headquartered in Irvine, California. We are one of the largest egg companies in the nation. Operated by a team of customer oriented, experienced individuals we are constantly working to bring you the best quality eggs for the best possible price.

Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Company Size: 11-50 employees

Eggs Unlimited

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~~Eggs Unlimited is one of the world’s largest suppliers of eggs, serving the biggest retail and food manufacturing companies around the globe. Every day, we find homes for millions of eggs by tapping into our vast supply chain and customer networks. Bringing sellers and buyers together in fair market negotiations, we open up a world of possibilities for expanding their knowledge, reach, and access. With dedicated service teams and a mission to uphold transparency and trustworthiness, we create quick and creative solutions to help manage the ever-evolving demands of the global egg industry.~~

**Job Summary:**

We are seeking a high-impact, executive-level VP of Sales to lead the next stage of commercial growth for a fast-paced, high-performance egg company in hyper-growth mode. This role is designed for a strategic and hands-on commercial leader who can build and lead a scalable sales organization, drive profitable revenue growth, strengthen customer and supplier relationships, expand market opportunities, and help shape the company's broader commercial strategy. The VP of Sales will be responsible for leading the sales and trading function, building stronger systems of accountability, developing sales leaders, and ensuring the company is positioned to win in a fast-moving, margin-sensitive, relationship-driven market. The ideal candidate has led sales teams in food, commodities, perishables, produce, protein, brokerage, wholesale distribution, agriculture, or another complex commercial environment where speed, trust, pricing discipline, supply chain execution, and market judgment matter. This person must bring executive presence, strong commercial instincts, high standards, and the ability to scale a business without slowing it down. This role is best suited for a leader who thrives in a culture that blends high performance, urgency, and ambition with a family-owned, tight-knit, entrepreneurial environment where people wear many hats and are expected to drive the business forward.

**Core Responsibilities:**

- Hold a significant role in shaping overall sales strategy for the company, including revenue growth, gross margin performance, customer expansion, supplier alignment, market development, and commercial execution.

- Lead, develop, and scale the sales and trading organization, including sales leaders, Traders, account owners, and other commercially focused team members

- Build a stronger, more unified operating system across customers, suppliers, categories, geographies, pricing, pipeline, forecasting, and account strategy

- Partner with C-Suite, executive leadership, operations, logistics, finance, and supply chain teams to align sales strategy with company priorities, profitability goals, and operational capabilities

- Drive profitable growth across wholesale, retail, foodservice, distribution, and other strategic customer segments

- Identify and pursue new markets, channels, customer segments, supplier opportunities, product categories, and strategic growth initiatives

- Strengthen senior-level relationships with major customers, suppliers, industry partners, and strategic accounts

- Provide executive leadership on high-value negotiations, major account strategy, supplier relationships, pricing decisions, and complex commercial opportunities

- Create clear performance expectations, KPIs, reporting rhythms, sales cadences, and accountability systems for the sales organization

- Improve visibility into pipeline, revenue, margin, customer concentration, supplier coverage, market risk, deal quality, and team performance

- Ensure the sales team operates with urgency, discipline, responsiveness, ownership, and strong commercial judgment

- Build and develop sales leadership capacity across the organization, including coaching, succession planning, performance management, and capability building

- Partner with leadership on sales compensation, incentives, territory/account design, hiring plans, organizational structure, and resource allocation

- Help the business scale by standardizing the right sales processes, tools, reporting, and best practices while preserving entrepreneurial flexibility and speed

- Monitor egg market dynamics, pricing changes, supply-demand shifts, freight considerations, customer needs, competitive activity, and broader food industry trends

- Represent the company externally with major customers, suppliers, industry associations, trade shows, conferences, and strategic partners

- Support international and cross-border growth opportunities where relevant, including customer/supplier development, logistics considerations, and regulatory awareness

- Reinforce a culture of high standards, humility, responsiveness, hard work, innovation, profitability, and follow-through

- Serve as a senior commercial voice in executive-level planning, company growth strategy, and long-term business building

- Other duties as assigned

**Qualifications:**

- 15+ years of progressive sales, commercial, trading, business development, or revenue leadership experience

- 7+ years of experience leading sales teams, sales leaders, Traders, brokers, account managers, or other revenue-producing commercial teams

- Strong background in one or more of the following: eggs, food sales, produce, protein, perishables, commodities, brokerage, wholesale distribution, agriculture, import/export, or supply chain-driven commercial environments

- Proven success building, scaling, and leading high-performing sales organizations in fast-paced, margin-sensitive, relationship-driven markets

- Demonstrated ability to drive profitable revenue growth, gross margin improvement, account expansion, supplier leverage, and commercial execution

- Strong executive presence with the ability to build trust with ownership, executive leadership, customers, suppliers, and internal teams

- Deep commercial acumen and comfort making decisions in markets where pricing, supply, freight, customer demand, and competitive conditions shift quickly

- Experience leading teams that manage both customer and supplier relationships strongly preferred

- Proven ability to build structure, accountability, reporting, and operating cadence without overcomplicating or slowing down the business

- Strong negotiation skills and experience leading major customer, supplier, pricing, and contract discussions

- Experience developing sales leaders, managing performance, raising standards, and building bench strength in a growing organization

- Strong analytical skills and comfort using sales data, market data, Excel, reporting, and KPIs to drive decisions

- Entrepreneurial, highly accountable, and energized by ambiguity, growth, speed, and hands-on problem-solving

- Comfortable in a high-performance culture with high expectations, rapid change, and a startup feel

- Experience selling into or leading teams that sell into wholesale, retail, foodservice, or distribution accounts preferred

- Experience with international markets, cross-border trade, freight considerations, or import/export environments preferred

- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or relevant executive education preferred

**Compensation and Benefits:**

- Full range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance

- 401(k) with a company match

- Generous PTO accrual, increasing each year

- Free Lunch Daily

- Unlimited Snacks & Refreshments

- We are experiencing hyper-growth - lots of opportunities for advancement

- Base Pay: $225,000 - $300,000+, depending on qualifications and experience

VP of Sales - On-Site (Irvine)

Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW), is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most. 

We thrive on discovery and expanding the boundaries of medical technology, serving patients in 100+ countries, with the help of our employees in areas including Clinical Affairs, Quality Engineering, Research & Development, Regulatory Affairs, Sales & Marketing, corporate functions and more. 

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Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Edwards Lifesciences

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes technical engineering, strategic business planning, process innovation, product compliance, supplier management, or enabling supply chain operations, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease impact millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. At Edwards Lifesciences, our Manufacturing and Engineering teams develop tools, technologies, and processes to power the production of life-changing medical devices to transform patients’ lives.

Within the Tissue Process Engineering Group, this position serves as a technical contributor and project lead, supporting the development, deployment, and optimization of advanced tissue manufacturing processes for structural heart valve portfolio.

**How you’ll make an impact:**

- Serve as a senior technical authority for advanced tissue manufacturing and laser‑based process technologies across the Edwards Implant Network.

- Lead technology projects from concept through implementation, including prototyping and characterization, system architecture and requirements definition, vendor selection and management, , system commission, , site transfer, and production ramp-up.

- Lead the development, evaluation, and integration of complex tissue process technologies into new product development and manage lifecycle improvements.

- Serve as the technical project lead overseeing technology development and commercialization, with responsibility for project schedules, managing technical risks and mitigation, developing validation and implementation strategies, leading a cross-functional team, and facilitating stakeholder communication throughout design, build, validation, site transfer, and sustainment phases.

- Partner closely with the Tissue & Biotechnology Center of Excellence (T&BCOE), New Product Development (NPD), New Product Introduction (NPI), Quality, Regulatory, Validation, suppliers, and global manufacturing sites to translate design intent and Voice of the Factory into robust tissue manufacturing and laser process solutions.

- Design and execute, complex experiments and validation strategies to qualify tissue manufacturing technologies in a highly regulated environment.

- Apply principles of biomechanics to mechanical design, automation, and technologies, such as , laser and optical systems, chemical processing, vision systems, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to advance tissue manufacturing capability.

- Own laser process development activities including parameter development, window characterization, process capability studies, and ongoing optimization for yield, throughput, and quality.

- Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers and technicians, elevating organizational capability in tissue processing and laser technologies.

- Promote safety, ergonomic, laser safety, and automation best practices in the design and implementation of tissue process solutions.

**What you’ll need:**

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific with 6 years of engineering experience including technology site transfers in a highly regulated environment.

- Experience working with laser equipment.

- Travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.

- Onsite required.

**What else we look for:**

- Advanced degrees and/or Lean Six Sigma Certification.

- Medical device industry.

- Experience with design, development, operation, and troubleshooting of laser systems including ultra‑short pulse, CO₂, fiber, and related laser technologies.

- Demonstrated experience with advanced automation, vision systems, data‑driven manufacturing, or AI‑enabled process control.

- Experience serving as a technical project lead with a track record of successfully transferring complex manufacturing or laser‑based technologies across sites or product lines.

- Strong financial acumen related to capital equipment, budget and operating expense management, and cost-benefit analysis.

- Demonstrated technical leadership in the end-to-end equipment design and development process, including defining equipment and software requirements, driving system architecture and detailed specifications, and ensuring alignment with manufacturing and regulatory needs.

- Proven experience managing external vendors through selection, qualification, and on-going partnership for equipment delivery from concept through factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, validation, and production readiness.

- Demonstrated expertise in manufacturing process development, optimization, and validation of complex equipment or laser-based processes, including authoring and executing characterization, IQ/OQ/PQ, and equipment technical documentation in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $121,000 to $171,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

**COVID Vaccination Requirement**

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.

Principal Engineer, Process Development

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